Not finding any fonts

[ansel1]

Describe the bug
I'm using agg on MacOS (15.1 Sequoia). No matter what I set --font-family or --font-dir to, it always falls back on Arial Unicode MS.

For example:

❯ agg --font-family "Hack" --last-frame-duration 3 -v --font-dir /Users/regan/Library/Fonts out.cast cast.gif
[INFO  agg] terminal size: 97x27
[INFO  agg] selected font families: ["Hack", "Noto Emoji"]
[INFO  agg] selected theme: dracula
[INFO  agg] gif dimensions: 831x548
29 / 117 [====================================>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 24.79 % 84.22/s 1s [WARN  usvg::text] Fallback from Hack to Arial Unicode MS.
[WARN  usvg::text] Fallback from Hack to Arial Unicode MS.
[WARN  usvg::text] Fallback from Hack to .LastResort.
30 / 117 [=====================================>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 25.64 % 84.21/s 1s [WARN  usvg::text] Fallback from Hack to .LastResort.
[WARN  usvg::text] Fallback from Hack to .LastResort.
[WARN  usvg::text] Fallback from Hack to .LastResort.
[WARN  usvg::text] Fallback from Hack to .LastResort.
[WARN  usvg::text] Fallback from Hack to Arial Unicode MS.
[WARN  usvg::text] Fallback from Hack to Arial Unicode MS.
[WARN  usvg::text] Fallback from Hack to .LastResort.
[WARN  usvg::text] Fallback from Hack to .LastResort.
31 / 117 [=======================================>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 26.50 % 73.95/s 1s [WARN  usvg::text] Fallback from Hack to .LastResort.
[WARN  usvg::text] Fallback from Hack to .LastResort.
[WARN  usvg::text] Fallback from Hack to .LastResort.
[WARN  usvg::text] Fallback from Hack to .LastResort.
[WARN  usvg::text] Fallback from Hack to Arial Unicode MS.
[WARN  usvg::text] Fallback from Hack to Arial Unicode MS.
[WARN  usvg::text] Fallback from Hack to .LastResort.

I know I have Hack installed, and I've confirmed it's installed here: /Users/regan/Library/Fonts/Hack-Regular.ttf

I've tried it with several other font families as well. They all fall back to Arial or .LastResort.

Versions:

• OS: macOS 15.1
• agg: 1.5.0

[chuxubank]

I'm facing the same problem.

You can try add --renderer fontdue to the options, and it should work, and even faster?

But I still want resvg get work.

[ku1ik]

@chuxubank for you this problem occurs on macOS too?

[chuxubank]

@ku1ik Yes, macOS 15.1 (24B83)
agg 1.5.0

Converting this: https://asciinema.org/a/vSw29vD0IYyhzDPtKfVS7nsia

Details

 agg -vvv --font-size 14 --rows 40 --cols 100 --theme solarized-light --font-family "JetBrains Mono NL" Term.cast Term.gif [INFO agg] terminal size: 100x40 [INFO agg] selected font families: ["JetBrains Mono NL", "DejaVu Sans"] [INFO agg] selected theme: solarizedlight [INFO agg] gif dimensions: 856x803 [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. 1 / 57 [===>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 1.75 % 3.09/s 18s [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. 2 / 57 [======>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 3.51 % 5.41/s 10s [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. 3 / 57 [==========>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 5.26 % 7.19/s 8s [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. 4 / 57 [=============>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 7.02 % 8.59/s 6s [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. 5 / 57 [=================>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 8.77 % 9.66/s 5s [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. 6 / 57 [====================>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 10.53 % 10.09/s 5s [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. 7 / 57 [=======================>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 12.28 % 10.27/s 5s [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. 8 / 57 [===========================>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 14.04 % 10.55/s 5s [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. 9 / 57 [==============================>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 15.79 % 10.76/s 4s [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. 10 / 57 [=================================>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 17.54 % 10.89/s 4s [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. 11 / 57 [=====================================>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 19.30 % 10.92/s 4s [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. 12 / 57 [========================================>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 21.05 % 10.76/s 4s [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. 13 / 57 [============================================>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 22.81 % 10.48/s 4s [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. 14 / 57 [===============================================>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 24.56 % 10.54/s 4s [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. 15 / 57 [==================================================>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 26.32 % 10.66/s 4s [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. 16 / 57 [======================================================>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 28.07 % 10.88/s 4s [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. 17 / 57 [=========================================================>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 29.82 % 10.93/s 4s [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. 48 / 57 [===================================================================================================================================================================>------------------------------] 84.21 % 8.62/s 1s [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. 49 / 57 [======================================================================================================================================================================>---------------------------] 85.96 % 8.68/s 1s [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. [WARN usvg::text] Fallback from JetBrains Mono NL to .LastResort. 57 / 57 [====================================================================================================================================================================================================] 100.00 % 9.83/s [INFO agg] rendering finished in 5.798154s

[huangsam]

Encountering this issue as well. This is for macOS 15.3 + agg 1.5.0

...
[WARN  usvg::text] Fallback from Hack Nerd Font to Arial Unicode MS.
[WARN  usvg::text] Fallback from Hack Nerd Font to .LastResort.
[WARN  usvg::text] Fallback from Hack Nerd Font to .LastResort.
...

[gpakosz]

Also facing this. Using fontdue renderer doesn't exhibit the issue

$ agg --version
agg 1.5.0

macOS Sequoia 15.3

[gpakosz]

When I specify --font-family 'Source Code Pro,Hack Nerd Font Mono', each frame emits

[WARN  usvg::text] Fallback from Source Code Pro to Arial Unicode MS.

When I only speficy --font-family 'Hack Nerd Font Mono', I don't get any warning

[gpakosz]

It seems that agg fallbacks to Arial Unicode MS for some symbol, while I somewhat expects it to fallback to Hack Nerd Font Mono first?

[gpakosz]

The warning is caused by the ➜ (U+279C) character, see the folowing test.cast file

{"version": 2, "width": 111, "height": 36, "timestamp": 1742762049, "env": {"SHELL": "/opt/homebrew/bin/zsh", "TERM": "xterm-256color"}}
[0.357684, "o", "\r\u001b[0m\u001b[27m\u001b[24m\u001b[J\u001b[01;32m➜  \u001b[36m~\u001b[00m \u001b[K"]

$ agg -vvv --font-family 'Source Code Pro,Hack Nerd Font Mono' --cols 111 --rows 36 --speed 2 --theme github-dark ~/test.cast ~/test.gif
[INFO  agg] terminal size: 111x36
[INFO  agg] selected font families: ["Source Code Pro", "Hack Nerd Font Mono"]
[INFO  agg] selected theme: githubdark
[INFO  agg] gif dimensions: 949x725
[WARN  usvg::text] Fallback from Source Code Pro to Arial Unicode MS.
2 / 2 [===================================================================================================================================] 100.00 % 23.05/s
[INFO  agg] rendering finished in 0.087221414s

[artob]

I have the same problem as the previous: cannot get agg (1.5.0) to render emojis (color nor monochrome) with the default resvg renderer on macOS (15.4) even after having carefully read the docs and installed all relevant fonts (including Noto Emoji) and specifying --font-dir to point at a directory containing all those downloads. Emojis show up as a question mark icon in the GIF:

Just adding --renderer fontdue does sort this and renders monochrome emojis (but the output doesn't look all that great compared to the color system emojis):

Not mentioned previously in these issues, I wonder if the following note from the googlefonts/noto-emoji README has relevance, since it seems to indicate that NotoColorEmoji isn't going to work on macOS at all:

NotoColorEmoji uses the CBDT/CBLC color font format, which is supported by Android and Chrome/Chromium OS. Windows supports it starting with Windows 10 Anniversary Update in Chrome and Edge. On macOS, only Chrome supports it, while on Linux it will support it with some fontconfig tweaking, see googlefonts/noto-emoji#36. Currently we do not build other color font formats.

And indeed the only file that didn't succeed in installing on macOS was NotoColorEmoji.ttf:

However, the aforementioned doesn't explain why the monochrome Noto Emoji, at least, doesn't work with the resvg renderer. And the fact that just adding --renderer fontdue, with no other changes, makes this work would seem to indicate a bug in the resvg renderer compared to the fontdue renderer, @ku1ik?

[artob]

Potentially related previous issues: #65, #64, #31

[ku1ik]

I just released 1.7.0 (https://github.com/asciinema/agg/releases/tag/v1.7.0), where I upgraded a few font/text rendering related dependencies. Almost all of the font handling is done via those libraries so there's slight chance it improves things. Given it worked fine on my system previously I can't really tell myself.